Roma
Rome Is a Paradise
Guido is a photographer from Rome and an old friend of ours. Here's some pictures of his city that he calls "a daily record of the people I meet, things I've experienced, and stuff I'm interested in."
The New Roma Ghettos
In the last two years, as the Eurozone crisis worsens, Slovakia seems to be scapegoating its precarious minority of Roma—the ethnic group better known as Gypsies. Racist violence, evictions, threats, and more subtle forms of discrimination and...
Gypsy Child Snatchers! (Aren't Coming for Your Kids)
Despite what tabloid hysteria might have you believe, the child in Greece everyone thought had been kidnapped by Roma actually is Roma. Her parents are from Bulgaria, and her mother gave her away because she was too poor to raise her.
The Swedish Police Is Keeping Tabs on Roma Immigrants
The Swedish police keeps a registry that contains detailed information about 4,029 people of Roma descent. More than half of the people on the registry have no criminal record, and there were 1,000 children on the list who are too young to have even...
Artur Conka Photographs the Roma Poor He Left Behind
Artur Conka is one of the few Roma who has documented his community from behind the lens. Originally from Lunik IX, one of the largest and poorest Roma communities in Slovakia, his family traveled across Europe before finally settling in Britain. Years...
The Reluctant Roma Cannibals of Romania
Conditions in Nazi concentration camps were so horrible, many Roma were forced to eat their children. Romeo Tiberiade is making a documentary about this terribly depressing story, which chronicles the deportation of Roma people from Romania to...
Chef's Night Out: Anthony Strong
Heading the kitchen of Delfina owners' latest Italian venture, Locanda, Anthony Strong is giving a San Francisco update to old school Roma cooking.